Walters Talks With 'Lovable Little Fuzzball' Rush Limbaugh

After reading my colleague Colleen Raezler's piece about Barbara Walters' interview with "harmless, lovable, little fuzzball" Rush Limbaugh, watch the video:
Noel Sheppard

Sociology Prof's Solution To Detroit Meltdown: Unionize Toyota

Only a professor, preferably a sociology professor, one with way too much time on his hands, could have come up with this one.  His solution to the Detroit crisis that has the Big Three automakers on the brink of bye-bye?  Unionize their foreign competitors manufacturing in the USA!Now why didn't we think of that?  Because we're not Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology at Wesleyan…
Mark Finkelstein

Anti-SNL Comedy Video Open Thread

Let's do it again. Here are the rules: suggested videos should be tasteful, unoffensive, and sent this evening to both Noel and Warner via PM or EM (nsheppard@newsbusters.org, igcolonel@hotmail.com). Please don't link videos in the comments section, for we want all content to be filtered.The phone lines are open!Our first submission is an oldie but goodie courtesy LighthouseJ (embedded right,…
NB Staff

Military Report Questioning Global Warming Frightens Alarmists

If you needed any more proof climate alarmists are an extraordinarily deluded bunch that will do anything to protect their dogma, you got it Saturday when a 56-page report on military strategy incited ire because it included two paragraphs on global warming that don't perfectly fit Nobel Laureate Al Gore's agenda.In fact, all the brouhaha was largely about one sentence: "In many respects,…
Noel Sheppard

CNN's Soledad O'Brien Whacks Fox's Megyn Kelly on Palin Bias

Tim Graham

Weekend Captionfest II

Then candidate Barack Obama listens to Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano during an economic discussion in June 2008 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama recently named Napolitano head of the Dept. of Homeland Security.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Jeff Haynes)  
NB Staff

Barbara Walters Looks for 'Fascinating' Flaws of Palin, Limbaugh

Colleen Raezler

Saturday Sports Open Thread

NB Staff

Open Thread

NB Staff

Urban Gun Crime Partially the Fault of 'The South': AP

Attention, y'all in the South: Urban crime is partly your fault.You see, if you didn't own so many guns, you wouldn't have so many of them stolen or sold at gun shows. Right now, those evil guns cross state lines and get used to commit crimes in urban areas.Got that?I know all of this because the Associated Press's Seanna Adcox, acting as a mouthpiece for the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has told…
Tom Blumer

N.Y. Times Publishes Bill Ayers Attack on Conservatives

Tim Graham

Collins: Palin a 'Moose-Murderer

Though O.J. Simpson was sentenced for robbery and related crimes yesterday, thirteen years ago he walked on a double-murder charge. That might be an isolated case, but Gail Collins apparently believes there are tens of millions of murderers roaming free in America.  We call them by a different name: hunters.Collins made her inane hunting = murder analogy in her column today in the course of…
Mark Finkelstein

Angst on PBS Over Too-Long Wait for Obama's Inauguration

In the midst of a discussion about President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, Washington Week host Gwen Ifill on Friday night's program sought confirmation for her theory that “what people are beginning to say is that this President-elect should be President now” as “people are saying why isn't Barack Obama leading the fight about the auto-makers?” New York Times reporter Peter Baker…
Brent Baker

Not Green -- GM Car Shipped to Washington for PR Stunt

Rick Wagoner arrives to make bailout plea in Chevy Volt, but really took Chevy Malibu hybrid from Detroit to Washington.
Jeff Poor